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Liverpool stars FINED for reporting late for Zoom team sessions during coronavirus crisis
Liverpool stars have been fined by Jurgen Klopp for turning up late to team sessions on Zoom.
Jurgen Klopp admits he fines players if they show up late to virtual team meetings. The Liverpool boss has been hosting conference calls on Zoom to keep in touch with his players during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Premier League has been suspended since March 13 and has no return date currently scheduled.
The EFL is hoping to return on June 6 if the disease eases up and it is safe to return to action.
Liverpool are on the brink of the Premier League title with nine games to play.
And Klopp admits he’s struggling with the lack of contact with his players but he’s making do with video calls.
However he revealed he’s been fining players if they turn up late.
"The boys are all in good spirits; you feel immediately why you miss them so much, because it’s just an exceptional group."
— Liverpool FC (at ??????) (@LFC) April 13, 2020
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In a Q&A on the Liverpool website, he was asked: “It must be nice in that regard to see the boys and seeing the togetherness. But it’s a little bit chaotic, everybody talking at the same time, it’s very funny isn’t it?”
And Klopp said: “Yeah, some people may say it’s like a normal meeting or normal session we have! But it’s not like this.
“I like that as well. When we start at 10, the chat is open from 9.30 on and pretty much everybody is already in. Especially in the first few they were all pretty early in the chat, so it was really chaotic.
“Meanwhile, they join it later now everybody knows how it works technically and stuff like that.
“So they come later, but in time, which is important – because we fine that as well! Too late in a Zoom session means you have to pay!
"That’s the best thing of having this situation in 2020 – we have this technical opportunity.
“Imagine if we would have had that in the ‘80s or something like that, it would have been really crazy.
“Not because of football, because of all the social contact and interaction we can have and use in the moment. That makes a big difference.”